Tim Robinson Bio

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Childhood

     Tim Robinson was born in Detroit, MI. However he was raised outside of Detroit in the suburbs of Clarkston. Tim's parents encouraged him to try everything he wanted to do, they never wanted to push him into anything. He first got into skateboarding when he was about 10 years old, but with the cold winters of Michigan he turned to playing hockey during the cold months. He spent most of his teenage years skateboarding in the summer and playing hockey in the winter with his school team. It wasn't until he was about 16 when he saw a Second City comedy performance in Chicago that made him want to do comedy. Tim started to put all of his effort into comedy writing after seeing that show and began trying to pursue a career in it.

 

Comedy

     If you only know Tim Robinson from his hockey you might be surprised to hear he spent most of his time working in Comedy as a writer/performer. He started his career in comedy by taking Improv classes in Detroit. He would later join Second City in Chicago for a couple years where he performed Improv. His time with Second City would get him noticed by NBC which got him hired as a writer for Saturday Night Live for over four years. He ended up leaving SNL as a writer after they did not approve of adding him to the cast of SNL and wanted to solely keep him as a writer for the show. Shortly after leaving SNL he wrote and starred in a TV show for Comedy Central called Detroiters that aired for two seasons before being cancelled. It would later get a decent following and there have been efforts to try to revive the show for another season, but nothing has been announced yet. Shortly after Detroiters Tim would create a sketch comedy show for Netflix called I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson that ended up becoming very successful. It currently has two seasons and was green lit for a third before Tim Robinson declined to continue doing the show so he could focus on hockey.

 

Hockey

     Tim Robinson never quit skateboarding or playing hockey. During his career as a comedy writer/actor he would spend many of his evenings playing beer league hockey and also skateboarding with friends. He told in an interview the main reason he joined the VHL to play hockey was he thought it was just a new beer league. He also didn't realize that at age 42 he would even have a chance to play hockey professionally. So when he was signed to a VHLM team and then later drafted to a VHLM team he decided to put his comedy writing/performing on hold for a while to see what he could do before it was too late. He is currently playing for the Miami Marauders where he is leading his team in scoring with 11 G 15 A 26 P in only 12 games played. Tim is in high hopes he will be drafted at the end of the S94 of the VHLM, he said he has his sights on the VHL. It looks as though his age is not slowing him down currently, and Tim Robinson might be able to have a great career playing hockey.

 

Fan Backlash

     After Tim announced he would be putting his show with Netflix on hold for now while he plays hockey, it caused a lot of backlash from his fans. Many fans started sending in threats to him to quit the league and come back to writing/performing in his show. There have been multiple videos/pictures of fans screaming in Tim's face about his decision to quit writing and play hockey. However, after he was drafted by Miami and started the season as one of the best scorers of the league, these threats and outbursts have started to decline. Fans are now beginning to cheer on his decision and support him at his games.

 

The Future

     Tim has stated that he wants to play hockey for as long as his body can handle it. He stated he would go back to writing for his show only after he retires from hockey. He said he doesn't want his comedy writing distracting him from his potential career. Some worries have surfaced for Tim about possibly having to move overseas if he gets drafted to a European team. Tim has a wife and two children and all of them have stated they would like to stay in North America while he plays, but they know the possibility of him getting drafted to a European team and are trying to keep and open mind to possibly having to move overseas in the next few months if that were to happen.

 

 

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